• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.29-43
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• 2008

가상 세계(Virtual World)는 다수의 플레이어들이 자신을 표현하는 아바타를 통해 한 공간에서 다양한 상호작용을 경험하는 사이버 게임 공간이다. 외국을 중심으로 활발하게 개발 중인 가상 세계는 전 세계적으로 앞으로도 지속적으로 성장할 것으로 기대 된다. 이러한 가상 세계는 가입자들이 가상공간을 무료로 접근하고 가상공간에서의 활동에 대해 과금을 하는 방식이 보편화될 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 대부분의 가상 세계가 2000년 초부터 서비스가 시작되어 가상 세계의 수익 모델에 관한 연구는 초기 단계에 불과하다. 한국의 경우 게임을 무료로 즐기면서 게임 내 아이템 판매 등을 통해 수익을 창출하는 방식에 대한 수많은 시도가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 한국 온라인 게임의 수익 모델과 외국에서 상업적으로 성공을 거둔 가상 세계의 수익 모델을 분석하여 게임 내 자산 판매 방식을 중심으로 생활형 가상 세계를 위한 효과적인 수익 모델을 제안한다. 이 논문에서 제안하는 게임 내 자산 판매를 통한 수익 모델의 가이드라인은 생활형 가상 세계의 효과적인 수익 창출에 기여할 것으로 예상된다.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.207-223
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• 2013

Revenue management (RM) has been widely used to model products characterized as perishable. Classical RM model assumed that price is the sole factor in the model. Thus price adjustment becomes a crucial and costly factor in business. In this paper, an optimal pricing model is developed based on minimization of soft customer cost, one kind of price adjustment cost and is solved by Lagrange multiplier method. It is formed by expected discounted revenue/bid price integrating quantity-based RM and pricing-based RM. Quantity-based RM consists of two capacity models, namely, booking limit and overbooking. Booking limit, built by assuming uncertain customer arrival, decides the optimal capacity allocation for two market segments. Overbooking determines the level of accepted order exceeding capacity to anticipate probability of cancellation. Furthermore, pricing-based RM models occupancy/demand rate influenced by internal and competitor price changes. In this paper, a mathematical model based on game theoretic approach is developed for two conditions of deterministic and stochastic demand. Based on the equilibrium point, the best strategy for both hotels can be determined.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.163-173
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• 2018

본 연구는 국내 e스포츠 산업의 비즈니스 모델 실태를 진단 및 분석하고 시사점을 도출하는 것이다. e스포츠의 수익창출 경로, 현황 등을 파악하기 위해 e스포츠 구단, e스포츠 미디어, e스포츠 경기장, e스포츠 종목사로 나누고 각 주체별로 사업실무자들을 대상으로 인터뷰를 실시했다. 분석 결과 e스포츠구단은 대부분 구단의 후원금으로 수익이 구성되어 있었고, 미디어는 광고와 수신료, 판권 수입, 비용은 제작비가 대부분을 차지하였다. e스포츠 경기장은 대부분 모기업으로부터 후원에 의해 운영되고 있었다. 종목사 역시 대부분 모기업의 후원금으로 운영되고 있고, e스포츠가 모기업의 홍보 목적임을 알 수 있었다. 본 분석을 통해 수익원의 발굴 필요, 입장권의 유료화 검토, 스폰서 유입 필요, 해외 e스포츠산업의 붐에 따른 신규 수익원 창출 가능성 등을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 지금까지 거의 취급되지 못했던 e스포츠산업의 비즈니스 모델을 수익과 비용 중심으로 파악함으로써 업계와 산업 발전에 기여할 수 있을 것이라 기대된다.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2009

There are customer services jointly provided by two facilities so that each customer will complete the course made up of both facilities' sub-services. The two facilities are assumed invested respectively by an infrastructure owner and one subordinate facility owner, whose partnership is built on their capital investments. This paper presents a mathematical model of Stackelberg competition between the two facility owners to derive their optimal Nash equilibrium. In this study, each facility owner's profit is consisted of fixed revenue fractions of sold services, operating costs (including depreciation cost) and maintenance costs of her facility. The maintenance costs of one facility are incurred both by failures and deterioration due to usage. Moreover, for both facilities, failures are rectified immediately by minimal repairs and preventive maintenance is carried out at a fixed time epoch. Additional assumptions are also employed to develop the model such as customer arrivals are manipulated to follow a Poisson process, and each facility's lifetime is independently Weibull-distributed. The Stackelberg game proceeds as follows. At the first stage of decision making process, the infrastructure owner (acting as a leader) decides the allocation of revenue shares based on her self-interest. After observing the allocation of revenue shares, the subordinate facility owner determines her own optimal price of services. This paper investigates actions and reactions of the two partners in the system. Then analytical conditions are proposed to achieve a unique optimal Nash equilibrium. Finally, some suggestions for further research are discussed.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.457-463
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• 2012

소셜네트워크게임(SNG)은 말 그대로 사회적인 연결망이나 관계에 기반한 게임이다. 사람들과의 관계가 게임에 있어서 중요한 요소가 되어 이를 잘 활용해야 원활한 진행을 할 수 있다는 점이다. 소셜네트워크 서비스에 바탕을 둔 소셜네트워크 게임의 활동은 실제 기업상품과 연결시켜 구매를 유도할 수도 있고 또 소셜네트워크 게임 상의 가게를 기업의 웹사이트나 쇼핑몰과 연결하여 게임 속에서 광고를 통한 마케팅도 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 개발게임을 사례를 들어 소셜커머스에 기반한 새로운 SNG 비즈니스 모델을 제안하고 차후 SNG 수익모델 연계방식을 제시하였다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.260-270
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• 2013

This paper proposes a strategic portfolio model for managing performance of online games. The portfolio matrix is composed of two dimensions: financial performance and non-financial performance. Financial performance is measured by the conventional measure, average revenue per user (ARPU). In terms of non-financial performance, five non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs) that have been widely used in the online game industry are utilized: RU (Register User), VU (Visiting User), TS (Time Spent), ACU (Average Current User), MCU (Maximum Current User). Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is then employed to produce a single performance measure aggregating the five KPIs. DEA is a linear programming model for measuring the relative efficiency of decision making unit (DMUs) with multiple inputs and outputs. This study employs DEA as a tool for multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), in particular, the pure output model without inputs. Combining the two types of performance produces the online game portfolio matrix with four quadrants: Dark Horse, Stop Loss, Jack Pot, Luxury Goods. A case study of 39 online games provided by company 'N' is provided. The proposed portfolio model is expected to be fruitfully used for strategic decision making of online game companies.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2016

Purpose - The objective of this study is to investigate the dynamic relationships among Advertising Cost (AD), Newly Registered Users(NRU), and Buying Users(BU) of Social Network Game(SNG). SNG is getting pervasive mainly due to the rapid growth of mobile game and Social Network Service(SNS). It would be helpful for marketing researchers interested in SNG and related practitioners to understand the changes in AD, NRU, and BU with time as well as the effects on one another in mutual and dynamic way. Research Design, Data, and Methodology - Necessary data were collected from Social Network Game(SNG) company. AD, NRU, and BU are endogenous variables, but new event such as launching (event) and holidays(holiday) are exogenous dummy variables. Vector Auto regression (VAR) model is generally used to examine and capture the dynamic relationships among endogenous variables. VAR model can easily capture dynamic and endogenous relationships among time-series variables. Vector Auto regression with Exogenous variables(VARX) is a model in which exogenous variables are added to VAR. To investigate this study, VARX is applied. Result - By estimating the VARX model, the author finds that the past periods' NRU affect negatively and significantly the present AD, and past periods' BU have a positive and significant impact on the increase of AD. In addition, the author shows that the past periods' AD and BU have a positive and significant effect on the increase of NRU, and the past periods' AD affect positively and significantly BU. While the impact of AD on NRU happens after 3 or 4 days (carryover effect), that of AD on BU comes about within just 1 or 2 days (immediate effect). The effect of BU on NRU can be considered as word of mouth (WOM effect). Therefore, SNG companies can obtain not only the growth of revenue but also the increase of NRU by increasing BU. Through those results, the author can also find that there are significant interactions between endogenous variables. Conclusion - This study intends to investigate endogenous and dynamic relationships between AD, NRU, and BU. They also give managerial implications to practitioners for SNS and SNG firms. Through this study, it is found that there exist significant interactions and dynamic relationships between those three endogenous variables. The results of this study can have meaningful implications for practitioners and researchers of SNG. This research is unique in that it deals with "actual" field data and intend to find "actual" relationships among variables unlike other related existing studies which intend to investigate psychological factors affecting the intention of game usage and the intention of purchasing game items. This study is also meaningful by showing that the increase of BU can be a good strategy for "killing birds with one stone" (i.e., revenue growth and NRU increase). Although there are some limitations related with future research topics, this research contributes to the current research on SNG marketing in the above mentioned ways.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.75-93
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• 2023

The game industry has grown not only by combining them with various technologies also introducing new types of business models such as P2P, F2P, and P2W. Furthermore, games which implemented X2E model with blockchain technology are recently in the spotlight of the public attention. As domestic game companies have also prospect the blockchain games feasible, they are seeking ways to expand their global market share by strengthening the X2E model. Hence, by carrying this new business model out, it is expected to diversify their global revenue stream, which was previously confined to Asia region. This study analyzed the case of companies that have implemented the P2E and C2E models in order to suggest the direction of development for the game platform in Web 3.0 era. The cases of P2E game platform, which constitute of Axie Infinity and Mir 4, encompass the compensation structure, the stabilization mechanism of the in-game token economy, and future strategies regarding blockchain gaming. Likewise, the platform structure, business model, and future growth potential was discussed in terms of C2E scheme, focusing on the ZEPETO and Roblox cases. Based on the above case analysis, this study attempted to provide information on the current limitations and development directions of the P2E and C2E platforms. The current limitations in legal and industrial aspects should be addressed to facilitate the blooming of blockchain and P2E game industry. In addition, the necessity of not only social support also improvement on the technology and social stigma of full-time creators is ought to be emphasized in an effort to encourage the development of C2E platforms.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.77-90
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• 2021

Online and mobile games represent digital entertainment. Not only the game grows fast, but also it has been noted for unique business models such as a subscription revenue model and free-to-play with partial payment. But, a recent revenue mechanism, called a loot-box system, has been criticized due to overspending, weak protection to teenagers, and more over gambling-like features. Policy makers and research communities have counted on expert opinions, review boards, and temporal survey studies to build countermeasures to minimize negative effects of online and mobile games. In this process, speed was not seriously considered. In this study, we attempt to use a big data source to find a way of observing a trend for policy makers and researchers. Specifically, we tried to apply the Word2Vec data mining algorithm to news repositories. From the findings, we acknowledged that the suggested design would be effective in lightening issues timely and precisely. This study contributes to digital entertainment service communities by providing a practical method to follow up trends; thus, helping practitioners have concrete grounds for balancing public concerns and business purposes.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.431-438
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• 2015

스마트폰이 대중화되고 모바일광고 산업이 많이 발전되었고 모바일광고의 종류도 많이 생겨나고 있다. 모바일게임에서도 많은 개발자가 무료게임을 출시하고 광고를 서비스하는 서비스 업체의 SDK를 이용하여 광고 수익을 내고 있다. 모바일 IGA는 배너, 전면광고, 전면 비디오광고 3가지의 형태로 광고를 사용하고 있으며 각각의 광고는 장단점을 가지고 있다. 현재 많은 게임이 전면광고와 전면 비디오광고를 이용하지만 이러한 광고 수익모델 방식은 유저들의 게임플레이 시간을 일부 사용하는 광고 방식이다. 이러한 방식의 단점을 개선하기 위해서 많이 사용했던 3가지의 광고 수익모델을 분석하여 해당 요소를 찾고, 선행연구들의 연구결과를 이용하여 새로운 광고의 융복합 수익모델을 제안하였다.